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Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis
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September 1, 2004
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Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis, by Thomas D. Beamish. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 2002. 220 pp. $21.95 (paper). ISBN:0-262-52320-5.
Acute environmental events with dramatic, highly visible impacts often attract our immediate attention (Quarantelli 1998). For example, when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in 1989 and spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, "virtually every major and minor news service in the nation carried copy and pictures as the story unfolded" (p. 12). As Beamish illustrates in Silent Spill, however, chronic environmental events may go unnoticed for many years before deemed problematic. ...
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